Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AD-UM-BRA'TION
AD-UM-BRA'TION, n.
- The act of making a shadow or faint resemblance.
- A faint sketch; an imperfect representation of a thing. – Bacon.
- In heraldry, the shadow only of a figure, outlined, and painted of a color darker than the field. – Dict.
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